Almost 100 people were left homeless in the southern peninsula of this
Caribbean nation, officials said. Heavy rains have battered the eroded hills
since Friday, carrying away people, their houses and livestock, and destroying
fields.

Country roads were cut off and bridges swept away when streams
overflowed their banks from Les Cayes, about 95 miles southwest of the capital,
to Anse D'Hainault, on the tip of the peninsula, about 140 miles west of the
capital.

On Friday, two men drowned when they tried to swim across the
swollen river at Port-a-Piment, about 19 miles west of Les Cayes. Others died
when their houses, built on eroded river banks, collapsed. Ten bodies were
recovered; it is not clear how many others were missing.

The rains are
likely to continue until Thursday, said meteorologist Renan Jean-Louis.

Rains also pounded Jamaica this week, causing at least five deaths and
widespread damage throughout the central parishes of Clarendon, St. Ann's and
St. Catherine. The rains there were expected to continue through Wednesday.